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I have Windows 8 Professional installed on my laptop. The drive is formatted GPT. I checked using the Disk Management utility in windows today and found my Recovery partition was 300MB in size. This Recovery partition is created by windows 8 during installation. What I want to know is...

I have an Alienware M18xR2 with Windows 8. Power Profile is set to Balanced. I've changed the "Multimedia -> when sharing video" settings to "Prevent idling to sleep" but it doesn't work. After 30 minutes my laptop goes to sleep and the other users of my LAN get disconnected. I want my...

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3 motherboard. I have the U1e bios. I have an SSD and a 2GB WD SATA 3 HD on the4 2 x Intel SATA 3 Controllers and 1 x 1.5GB WD SATA 2 HD plus 1 x LG Blu-Ray writer and a new Pioneer DVR-220L DVD writer on the other 3 SATA 2 controller. The remaining SATA slot is...

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3 motherboard with the new U1e UEFI BIOS. I have a Crucial M4 SSD on the first Intel SATA port and 3 WD HDDs and 2 DVD-ROMs on the other 5 SATA ports. Should I have hot plug enabled or disabled in the BIOS? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to having...

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3 motherboard with the latest UEFI bios with AHCI and hot-plugging enabled. When I boot into Windows 8 all my internal hard disk drives appear in the "Safely Remove Hardware" list. This used to happen in Windows 7 but I applied a registry patch that fixed it...

As the topic says, is there any official Intel chipset software for Windows 8? I've looked at the Intel website but can't find any official chipset software releases. I find that amazing considering that Windows 8 has been officially released. Have I missed something?

I have a new Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3R-B32 motherboard which has replaced a faulty Asus Sabertooth P67. I would like a program that will accurately give me the voltage levels eg cpu, gpu, +3.3v +5.0v and +12.0v. etc I tried Aida64 1.70 (It worked great with the sabertooth) but it gives really...

I have a new Sabertooth P67 system. For some unknown reason if I plug in a USB faxmodem that gets power from the USB slot, if I put the computer to sleep or hibernation and leave it overnight, the computer won't wake up the next day. The exact same thing happens if i connect a usb printer to...